Lectures Conferences and Symposiums

Presented by Jorge Coronado, Professor of Latin American and Andean Literatures, Co-Director, Andean Cultures & Histories at Northwestern University. In this talk, Professor Coronado reconsiders the scholarly frameworks within which we locate indigenista literature, arguably the broadest literary movement in …

The speaker is Dr. Kidiocus King-Carroll, Assistant Professor in African & African Diaspora Studies at UWM. In person or via Teams.

The 2024 Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture Agriculture is considered multifunctional when it produces standard commodity goods alongside a broader range of human and ecological services. The degree to which agriculture is successfully multifunctional owes much to feedback among individual …

Since the 1970s, lacrosse has become one of the fastest-growing sports in North America, and Haudenosaunee communities have worked at the international level to claim lacrosse as an important part of Haudenosaunee culture and tradition. Lacrosse is also known as …

A panel presentation with UWM scholars, drawing upon a multi-year community collaboration and ethnographic work within the Muslim Milwaukee Project. The panelists will discuss highlights on demographics and community-building, reflections on positionality and relationality, and different expressions of activism. Panelists …

Presented by Professor Emily Latch & Billie Harrison, Biological Sciences, UW-Milwaukee. The island of Grenada is home to only two endemic terrestrial vertebrates, the Grenada Dove (Leptotila wellsi) and the Grenada Frog (Pristimantis euphronides). Both are Critically Endangered (IUCN Red …

Presented by Johannes Hollenbach, Paderborn University and RWI

Join us during "Week of the Italian Cuisine in the World" (November 16-22) for a talk by Grazia Menechella (Italian, UW-Madison). Prof. Menechella will explore Julia Lovejoy Cuniberti’s Practical Italian Recipes for American Kitchens (1917), a pioneering cookbook that introduced …

A Department of Geography colloquium with Amy Rohan and Amanda Beavin from the Milwaukee organization, Data You Can Use.